The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:"
before the custom message programs give, when they want to die
with a message about wrong command line options followed by the
standard usage string.

* jk/parseopt-usage-msg-opt:
  parse-options: print "fatal:" before usage_msg_opt()

A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage
objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot
have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn
made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path.  This
has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when
appending such a path to the colon-separated list.

* jk/quote-env-path-list-component:
  t5615-alternate-env: double-quotes in file names do not work on Windows
  t5547-push-quarantine: run the path separator test on Windows, too
  tmp-objdir: quote paths we add to alternates
  alternates: accept double-quoted paths

"git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been
taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of
$super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the
superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to
also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories
embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of
the superproject.

* vs/submodule-clone-nested-submodules-alternates:
  submodule--helper: set alternateLocation for cloned submodules

Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation.

* nd/shallow-fixup:
  shallow.c: remove useless code
  shallow.c: bit manipulation tweaks
  shallow.c: avoid theoretical pointer wrap-around
  shallow.c: make paint_alloc slightly more robust
  shallow.c: stop abusing COMMIT_SLAB_SIZE for paint_info's memory pools
  shallow.c: rename fields in paint_info to better express their purposes

Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back
to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when
the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user
did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt
the operation.

* sb/sequencer-abort-safety:
  Revert "sequencer: remove useless get_dir() function"
  sequencer: remove useless get_dir() function
  sequencer: make sequencer abort safer
  t3510: test that cherry-pick --abort does not unsafely change HEAD
  am: change safe_to_abort()'s not rewinding error into a warning
  am: fix filename in safe_to_abort() error message

Protect a recently added test case with !MINGW.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* kh/tutorial-grammofix:
  doc: omit needless "for"
  doc: make the intent of sentence clearer
  doc: add verb in front of command to run
  doc: add articles (grammar)

The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git
mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff.

* da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey:
  mergetools: fix xxdiff hotkeys

* lr/doc-fix-cet:
  date-formats.txt: Typo fix

Code cleanup.

* sb/t3600-cleanup:
  t3600: slightly modernize style
  t3600: remove useless redirect

"git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since
we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without
invoking "git rebase", but it didn't.

* jc/pull-rebase-ff:
  pull: fast-forward "pull --rebase=true"

"git p4" didn't interact with the internal of .git directory
correctly in the modern "git-worktree"-enabled world.

* ld/p4-worktree:
  git-p4: support git worktrees

Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.

* jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak:
  Makefile: exclude contrib from FIND_SOURCE_FILES
  Makefile: match shell scripts in FIND_SOURCE_FILES
  Makefile: exclude test cruft from FIND_SOURCE_FILES
  Makefile: reformat FIND_SOURCE_FILES

A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but
path normalization logic was unaware of it.

* js/normalize-path-copy-ceil:
  normalize_path_copy(): fix pushing to //server/share/dir on Windows

The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0

* bb/unicode-9.0:
  unicode_width.h: update the width tables to Unicode 9.0
  update_unicode.sh: remove the plane filter
  update_unicode.sh: automatically download newer definition files
  update_unicode.sh: pin the uniset repo to a known good commit
  update_unicode.sh: remove an unnecessary subshell level
  update_unicode.sh: move it into contrib/update-unicode

* jk/readme-gmane-is-no-more:
  README: replace gmane link with public-inbox

Git 2.11 had a minor regression in "merge --ff-only" that competed
with another process that simultanously attempted to update the
index. We used to explain what went wrong with an error message,
but the new code silently failed.  The error message has been
resurrected.

* jc/lock-report-on-error:
  lockfile: LOCK_REPORT_ON_ERROR
  hold_locked_index(): align error handling with hold_lockfile_for_update()
  wt-status: implement opportunisitc index update correctly

Retire the "fast hash" that had disastrous performance issues in
some corner cases.

* jk/xdiff-drop-xdl-fast-hash:
  xdiff: drop XDL_FAST_HASH

"git rebase" learned "--quit" option, which allows a user to
remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was
manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort".

* nd/rebase-forget:
  rebase: add --quit to cleanup rebase, leave everything else untouched

In addition to %(subject), %(body), "log --pretty=format:..."
learned a new placeholder %(trailers).

* jk/trailers-placeholder-in-pretty:
  ref-filter: add support to display trailers as part of contents
  pretty: add %(trailers) format for displaying trailers of a commit message

"git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index
ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not
change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody
needed it so far.

* ak/commit-only-allow-empty:
  commit: remove 'Clever' message for --only --amend
  commit: make --only --allow-empty work without paths

"git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from
a subdirectory, which has been fixed.

* da/difftool-dir-diff-fix:
  difftool: fix dir-diff index creation when in a subdirectory

"git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option.

* jb/diff-no-index-no-abbrev:
  diff: handle --no-abbrev in no-index case

A minor build update.

* rj/git-version-gen-do-not-force-abbrev:
  GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not force abbreviation length used by 'describe'

When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later,
it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash"
misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very
similar content is added.

* jk/stash-disable-renames-internally:
  stash: prefer plumbing over git-diff

Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails
to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message
only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to
be reported with something sensible.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect:
  http-walker: complain about non-404 loose object errors

Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs
that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server
side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to
security issues.  Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious
to the end user when it happens.

* jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9:
  http: treat http-alternates like redirects
  http: make redirects more obvious
  remote-curl: rename shadowed options variable
  http: always update the base URL for redirects
  http: simplify update_url_from_redirect

"git branch --list" and friends learned "--ignore-case" option to
optionally sort branches and tags case insensitively.

* nd/for-each-ref-ignore-case:
  tag, branch, for-each-ref: add --ignore-case for sorting and filtering

* sb/unpack-trees-grammofix:
  unpack-trees: fix grammar for untracked files in directories

The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS.

* ls/travis-update-p4-and-lfs:
  travis-ci: update P4 to 16.2 and GitLFS to 1.5.2 in Linux build

* ls/t0021-fixup:
  t0021: minor filter process test cleanup

A few messages have been fixed for their grammatical errors.

* ah/grammos:
  clone,fetch: explain the shallow-clone option a little more clearly
  receive-pack: improve English grammar of denyCurrentBranch message
  bisect: improve English grammar of not-ancestors message

Fix a corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in
during 2.10 development cycle.

* jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf:
  convert: git cherry-pick -Xrenormalize did not work
  merge-recursive: handle NULL in add_cacheinfo() correctly
  cherry-pick: demonstrate a segmentation fault

Commands that operate on a log message and add lines to the trailer
blocks, such as "format-patch -s", "cherry-pick (-x|-s)", and
"commit -s", have been taught to use the logic of and share the
code with "git interpret-trailer".

* jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands:
  sequencer: use trailer's trailer layout
  trailer: have function to describe trailer layout
  trailer: avoid unnecessary splitting on lines
  commit: make ignore_non_trailer take buf/len
  trailer: be stricter in parsing separators

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* ls/p4-retry-thrice:
  git-p4: add config to retry p4 commands; retry 3 times by default

"git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob.

* ls/p4-empty-file-on-lfs:
  git-p4: fix empty file processing for large file system backend GitLFS

* ld/p4-update-shelve:
  git-p4: support updating an existing shelved changelist

* vk/p4-submit-shelve:
  git-p4: allow submit to create shelved changelists.